Tungsten Turkey Ammo: Is It Worth It?

[BadgerRidge]

It’s a Rossi Brawler with. 9” barrel. I don’t have any idea about the choke but it’s rifled to shoot .45LC. It suits my purpose since I bought it to carry while on the tractor for snakes.

The rifling (in the barrel to stabilize 45LC... not to stabilize shot shells) causes the shot/wad to spin. When it leaves he barrel it spreads due to the spin. That is why you aren't getting many pellets to group even close in... like even at 20 yds. I bet with #8's or #9 lead its menacing to snakes inside 10ft.

 

[BadgerRidge]

Business practices like that will ruin their business in the end anyway. Word gets around. I've never had any experience with them but after hearing stories like that, I would think twice before buying anything from them.

Buds seems to be one of the most successful online & face to face gun stores. Probably because they keep their margins while keeping low prices and a high volume of sales. I just think that in my case they opted to put profit over customer service and saw me as a squeaky wheel.. instead of lubing it, they chopped it off.

 

[retrieverman]

Buds seems to be one of the most successful online & face to face gun stores. Probably because they keep their margins while keeping low prices and a high volume of sales. I just think that in my case they opted to put profit over customer service and saw me as a squeaky wheel.. instead of lubing it, they chopped it off.

I can screwed over by a Buds bait and switch a couple years ago, and I’ll never do business with them again no matter what their prices are.
I subscribe to the philosophy “screw me once, shame on you…screw me twice, shame on me.”

 

[jem44357]

Federal TSS 9.5 make this 15 inch Encore Jr. Schultz custom a 40 yd Turkey killer 1st pic. 2nd is my 20" 20ga probably good for 60 yd.

 

[snapbang]

Business practices like that will ruin their business in the end anyway.

You are exactly right. Do you remember IBM. Do you even hear of IBM anymore????
Back in the 70s they were the tech company all others wanted to be. Soon they began being self oriented instead of customer oriented. I worked for my dad that one summer about 1978 and he had an office with 6-7 people using equipment. I suggested an upgrade so he told me to give a call. Naturally to IBM. Who else. The salesman came out to the office with the piece in tow. My dad asked if we could use one for a few days to gain some familiarity with it or even to see if it was what we needed. I remember his response to this day. "I either need a check or to bring it back to my office." Never called or bought IBM again. Neither did a lot of companies. As stated I don't even hear of them anymore.

I further made a mistake by not buying short that day. I could have quit working a long time ago.

Interesting there is a gun company in Flint that many of you have mentioned. My brother and I were there one day and were treated poorly. We bought a lot of stuff there as we did trap and skeet shooting as well as reloading rifle. Never went back. 35 years ago. I go by it most Wednesday afternoons.

 

[dozer_xj]

When I first saw this thread I did not really know what much about TSS. I have been turkey hunting with magnum blend for a years and never shot a turkey over 30 yards.

This year my son wanted to hunt turkeys so I bought some 1.25 ounce 3" 20ga Winchester #5. The pattern even at 30 yards was not that great. 50 ish pellets in a 10" circle at 35 yards. I switched to 3" 1.25 longbeard XR #6. It was better. About 90 pellets inside a 10' circle at 35 yards. All this done with a Carlson .568" Longbeard choke.

My friend hand loaded some 2 3/4" 1.625 ounce tss# 10 and gave me one to try. At 40 yards, it put 348 pellets in a 10" circle. I was floored! Almost to the point it is too tight. I need to shoot another one at 20 yards.

Now shooting #10 at a turkey seems so unnatural. So the interesting part to me is my targets were stapled to a 3/4" sheet of plywood. The #5 at 35 yards would only go about half a pellet width into the wood. at 40 yards, the #10 would burry into the wood where you cannot even see them.

I think I am going to be carrying a 20 ga in the future.

 

[CatamountRob]

You are exactly right. Do you remember IBM. Do you even hear of IBM anymore????
Back in the 70s they were the tech company all others wanted to be. Soon they began being self oriented instead of customer oriented. I worked for my dad that one summer about 1978 and he had an office with 6-7 people using equipment. I suggested an upgrade so he told me to give a call. Naturally to IBM. Who else. The salesman came out to the office with the piece in tow. My dad asked if we could use one for a few days to gain some familiarity with it or even to see if it was what we needed. I remember his response to this day. "I either need a check or to bring it back to my office." Never called or bought IBM again. Neither did a lot of companies. As stated I don't even hear of them anymore.

I further made a mistake by not buying short that day. I could have quit working a long time ago.

Interesting there is a gun company in Flint that many of you have mentioned. My brother and I were there one day and were treated poorly. We bought a lot of stuff there as we did trap and skeet shooting as well as reloading rifle. Never went back. 35 years ago. I go by it most Wednesday afternoons.

IBM is still around and pretty successful, they just shifted focus.